In Our Modern Dystopia, We Treat Animals Like Children And Children Like Animals
With God and the Imago Dei kicked to the curb, it's a Peter Singer world where babies are less than human and animals get promoted to take their place.With God and the Imago Dei kicked to the curb, it's a Peter Singer world where babies are less than human and animals get promoted to take their place.Denying God’s Fatherhood Denies Fathers
Denying God’s fatherhood, motivated by a misplaced affinity for diversity and inclusion, or perhaps a deep feeling of pain from our own broken or non-existent relationship with our fathers, results in the unintended byproduct of further disconnecting us from the fact that we all need fathers.Glenn Beck says Trump can reset the world order — but success hinges on one critical thing
Glenn Beck believes that President Trump has the power to reset the world order — but his success all depends on one critical thing.
“What do you think that that success hinges on? Like, what's the if?” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler asked him on “The Liz Wheeler Show.”
“God,” he replied tearfully.
Change can only happen, Glenn says, if people adopt the humble heart posture of “Your will, not mine.”
To illustrate his point, he shares a heartfelt story from his son’s childhood.
“My son was ... probably 8 or 9, and he was afraid to do something, and I brought him into my office,” Glenn recounts, describing how the walls were filled with pictures of his personal heroes.
“I said, ‘Son, I know you're afraid to do something, but why do I have all of these pictures of these people on my walls?’ And he said, ‘Because they were all heroes, and they did the hard things, and they weren’t afraid,”’ he continues.
Glenn then gently corrected his son: “I've read the diaries of these people. I've studied these people. ... All of them were afraid. ... They were risking everything they loved — every single one of them. But they did it anyway because there's something bigger than them.”
That bigger something was “truth.”
“If we can humble ourselves enough to get to the point to where it's more important for me to fight this now, to fight for the truth, so my children don't have to do it, and I'll take on the consequences ... we save the world — not just the nation. We save the world,” says Glenn.
But this selfless mission requires something: “a deep abiding faith in God.”
And the world is depending on America to have that faith so that it can stand for truth.
“After talking to all of these leaders over in Europe, it's clear to me, and they said it to me, ‘America is the only hope. Without America, we are all lost,’” Glenn tells Liz, reflecting on his recent trip to the U.K. where he attended a Tommy Robinson rally.
“We're the only hope. Will we remember that? Be grateful for what we do have, and stand to protect it so our children have a chance at a more peaceful world tomorrow,” he says.
To hear more of Glenn’s powerful take, watch the video above.
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Anne Hathaway and the push for older motherhood. Is this a good thing?
Pregnant celebrities on red carpets may make later-in-life motherhood look effortless, but BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is warning that the reality is far more complicated.
Most recently, Anne Hathaway graced the red carpet in a beautiful dress, showing off her bump at 43 years old. While this is Hathaway’s third baby, many women are taking it as proof that women can and should wait until their 40s to become a mother.
“She’s a beautiful pregnant woman. I am so happy for her,” Stuckey says. “And I’m so glad that she is on social media. She’s on the red carpet showing that you can do all of these things. You can have a baby. I also love that she is showing that you don’t have to stop having a baby when you’re 35 just because they call you ‘geriatric’ or whatever it is.”
“You can keep having a baby, and it's beautiful. It doesn’t ruin your life,” she adds.
Now, the media is running with Hathaway’s pregnancy and making it seem as if it's as easy to get pregnant in your 40s as it is in your 20s or 30s.
“The Wall Street Journal published an article on July 13 titled, ‘Your 40s used to be middle age. Not anymore,’” Stuckey explains.
“While I am happy about all the things that I listed, and I’m happy about the contribution of another image-bearer of God to the world, and I think motherhood is fantastic, the risks have not changed in association with pregnancy after 40,” she continues.
“Am I saying that you shouldn’t do it if you are a married woman? No. But just because we changed the name because geriatric was offensive doesn’t mean that the risks don’t exist. It is much more difficult to get pregnant after 35 and especially after 40,” she adds.
But the risks don’t just affect the mother.
“The risks to the baby do increase after that,” she says.
And it’s not just the health risks associated with later pregnancies that have Stuckey concerned, but the unrealistic view of time.
“It is pushing this idea that you can party through your 20s, chase your career through your 30s, choose to settle down when you are 38 and you will be just as likely to get married and have children and be a trad wife when you are 45 as if you did it when you were 25,” she says.
“I just don’t want to sell women this unrealistic vision of what their life will absolutely look like if they defer marriage for promiscuity and for their career to be a girlboss forever,” she continues.
“I don’t have a problem obviously with women getting pregnant later in life. I have a problem with us presenting that as if it ... is the ideal,” she adds.
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The anti-Christian radicalization on college campuses couldn't be more fragile
Evangelist Cliffe Knechtle has spent decades facilitating open-air dialogues about Christianity on college campuses, and what he’s noticed is a massive change over the years.
“People are more emotionally fragile today than they were when we began back in the '80s and '90s,” he tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”
While his father grew up in Switzerland, “sat up in the Alps with a gun,” and watched Hitler’s army march toward his country — his grandfather was defending on the frontlines.
It was anything but fragile.
“Today, when Donald Trump wins the election, university students go to a crying room to get counseling. Give me a break. What emotional fragility. What an incredible emotional weakness today compared to the young 18-year-olds who fought against Adolf Hitler,” Knechtle explains.
But that’s not all that’s changed.
“Sexual immorality is embraced in a way that it’s not sexual immorality. It’s normal. So moral relativism and sexual immorality has become so commonplace, that if you stand against that, you are really, really, weird.”
Lastly, he says, “What has become too firmly entrenched is unless you can prove it scientifically, it’s not true.”
“I don’t care if you’re a liberal, you know very well that your critique of the conservatives is a moral, ethical critique. You’re not letting enough immigrants in. You’re elitist. And the conservatives are the same way. And you live a sexually twisted life, a perverted life,” he explains.
“So both are appealing to the moral argument, which I think is exciting because it really shows that we do have consciences, which means there really is a God,” he continues.
His son, Stuart Knechtle, recalls a moment when he was cornered by group of progressives who were distraught that he believed a suicidal 16-year-old girl should be saved.
“That’s devaluing her freedom and autonomy. If anything, you should aid in her decision to kill herself,” he says, mimicking their argument.
“I was shell-shocked, completely shocked,” he says.
“Sure enough, we kind of got around to the point of, ‘Do you guys really mean this?’ ... I think they go to the point of starting to realize just what they were saying. And they were relativizing morality, objective value,” he explains.
“That’s the one that I see where personal autonomy and freedom is considered really the top idea and thing to pursue even more so than the value of human life,” he adds.
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